As far as I know libkipi.so.9 is from libkipi-4.9.0 which i am testing in the untested repo...are you sure you install digikam-2.7.0-i586-3vl70.txz from gslapt with the untested repo? Btw, I am building kde-4.9.0 and will build digikam-2.8.0 with it...if u want u can try it later once i finish building it...

Sorry - I got mixed up. There are /were two versions going and the first one I enabled the "testing" repo. For that one I got the libavcodec error. The one you are referring to I installed via "installpkg" That's the one where I get the libkipi error.I also installed the opencv as requested.

Then there is 2 problem here...libavcodec and libkipi...as for as I know libkipi is cause by libkipi-4.9.0...i am building digikam-2.8.0 with kde-4.9.0 but that is for testing only. If you want you have enable the untested repo to install digikam via gslapt when I finish building digikam. But installing from untested repo may break your current system.Or you can reinstall digikam-2.7.0-i586-2vl70 and test from there...Btw, do you still the libavcodec error?

No more libavcodec errors - just the libkipi one. I don't care to break my system so I'll leave the untested repo alone. So I'll reinstall the digikam 2.7 when you feel you've made some progress with libkipi. Thanks a lot for your help!